July 2010: Warning, this thread contains offensive language; 1 wedding, --d--jogging and some Creme Eggs (although we don't know why). Oh and some babies who are nearly 1 year old.

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See? Panicking works!

trudy good for u re the therapy, it can only help, well done for going for it, thats the hard first step taken. How are u feeling re pg?
wss sucks a giant shit man, she doesnt go back down at all? D woke this morning at 4.05am, i went in 20 mins later, he went off after 20 mins of rocking but it didnt last long, he eventually went off an hour later and didnt wake untill 7.30, i was very gratefull. He didnt settle well at all tonight though, which is unusual, i could hear his tummy grumbling,its all that sodding cat food!! Hope that doesnt mean its gona be a bad night, im unnaturally tired so im off to bed.
chu where are u?
cake I did want the recipie and will cut and paste it and attempt it some time in the next millenium! thank you.
mylife meal plan sounds yummy, yet again!
night everyone........DH 4 sleeps to go!!!!!!!!! woo hoo!

They were both up at 4.37am vik so sadly my chance of getting them both back to sleep was zero. A woke up crying cos she couldn't open her eyes due to conjunctivitis (they were all stuck together with the gunk). It doesn't get light her till about 7.30 here so the three hours of darkness was a joy. I'm meant to be going out on Saturday for my 40th and I actually don't see how I can do it, I'm just so tired

dh you must be so excited. I was so nervous just before my wedding. Don't know why!

WSS You poor thing. It's a horribble feeling to start the day like that, isn't it. You start panicking before it has all really started. I really hope you will get her to sleep longer soon.

viks I really had to laugh about the cat food. Why are all babies obsessed with getting to the cat food bowl? M. hates crawling, but if she sees the bowl, she's as quick as anything.

Thanks for asking about pg. All OK, feel lots of flutterings usually in the evenings. My big 3 D scan is next week. How are things with you? How far along are you? Your first scan is Friday, isn't it? Have you still not told anyone in RL?

Oh, that must have been really scary for poor A WSS. Not a nice feeling. Saturday is still a few days away. Things might have improved then for your night out.

Dylthan That was way after my dad's time. How weird, we could have had a meet up! How are you liking Kinloss?

WSS Do you have a mini blowtorch for doing creme brulee / peppers? Very luxury but fun. I go to bed sometimes at the same time as ds - sounds crazy but it really helps me catch up. Even if you don't sleep just rest.

Spirael Wow over the shape sorter and colours, I'm amazed! Ds is nowhere near that.

MLIC Phew I was feeling bad for neglecting ds's education by not playing pattycake.

Woodlands Wow over the swimming too.

Trudyla Same here re anxiety. Hope you find it helps, I'm glad I spoke to someone about it. My friend had hypnotherapy to stop smoking and they said don't worry if you don't feel you are relaxing and you are thinking it won't work. That's exactly what happened and she cannot understand how she ever enjoyed smoking.

Cake Will try the tahini thingy, ta.

Needle I had some leftover pastry today and made some of those tomato spiral things - lovely, thank you. Ds even ate and swallowed all of one. Love the idea of the plie!

God I heart doing surveys. here we go.

Baby's age? (closest to 10.5m, 11m or 11.5m) 11m

Can he/she:

Understand simple instructions? Nope, no evidence of that. He'll come over to you if he wants to but I think that cos he feels like it not cos you say "Come over here."

Understand 'No'? Now don't start throwing things at your screens but I don't really say it to him - I'm saving 'no' for dangerous stuff so I don't really know yet. Yes I did read about that in wanky parenting book.

Crawl? Yep for ages. Traditional and bum in the air, feet and hands.

Coast/cruise? Yep for ages.

Walk with walker/walker-like object/holding your hand/s Yes to walker and if you hold him under the arms. Can sometimes turn corners.

Stand unaided (clue: this means not holding on to anything )? Did it for the first time unprompted on Sunday. (He was holding on to a cracker and a chair and decided the cracker would be enough to support him. And it was for approx 3 seconds!)

Stoop from a standing position? No, only holding on to something with one hand.

Bends over and picks up an object? See above.

Take steps/walk? Nope.

Says Mama/Dada? Says Mama.

Say Mama/Dada to correct parent? No its just randow jabbering.

Says other words (aside from Mama/Dada)? No. But if you sing Old MacDonald he'll keep saying Baa Baa until you do the sheep and then he's delighted.

Wave goodbye/hello? Nope.

Plays patty-cake and peek-a-boo. Nope.

Use pincer grip? Yep.

Indicate what he/she wants with gestures ?? Just grabs at absolutely anything that comes into his hemisphere.

Imitate others' activities? No don't think so.

Put objects into a container? Yes but prefers to take them out, especially from the washing basket or when you're tidying up.

Scribble with a crayon? No! Can we try them with crayons then? Exciting!

Any other talents. Can climb out of the bath as of tonight. Also very good at getting off sofa and wriggling out of your arms when he wants down.
Just started dancing too.
Can open all the kitchen drawers and cupboards. And fridge (haven't found that bloody luggage belt yet - screwdriver jammed under the door currently).
Climbs up the stairs while laughing like a maniac. Enjoys then be chased up by the monster (aka me).

dh What is the cake like? And the flowers? Sorry if you've done all this with the oldhands.

Albrecht I did buy him a little blowtorch when he went through a "creme brulee" stage a couple of years ago. He loved it - so that idea is used up, it's a good one though.

He still uses it for creme brulee sometimes, though perhaps a bit more often as an emergency cigarette lighter

wss this too will pass x100

alb snorted at the cracker holding him up

what did the wanky parenting book give as rationale for not saying no? Genuinely interested. i don't say 'no' much at this stage tbh but not for any calculated reason i suppose there's just not much she can/does do that i think is 'wrong' at the mo, i only say no when she hangs off precarious things/my hair or bites my nipples.

trudy def sounds worth a go. i know a few people who've done well with hypnotherapy - it's a very well proven therapy.

mlic liking the meal plan. what recipe are the sausages? what's baked macaroni? mac cheese?

we had 'shepherds pie', roast parsnips, broccoli, peas and gravy tonight.

just watching 127 hours - quite good but some v gross scenes.

tsc is dp back now? how did his wine-tasting go?

when did we last hear from chul? hasn;t been on fb either since fri. i'm gonna message her now.

Hi all

wss poor A waking like that, conjunctivitus us horrible. Don't blame you being pissed off with the early wake ups. Have you tried later bed time?

trudy I didn't know you had anxiety issues (come to my corner and you albrecht) I have had hypnotherapy and it is good unfortunately I haven't listened to my cd in a while you've reminded me to look it out. Its definitely worth a try. Will you post pics of your 3d scan?

viks is D in for something? Hope your posting scan pics on friday?

cakes I have to say I loved F's ugg boots can't wait till R is big enough for them.

albrecht that's a good way to meet people. How did the group go?

R seemed better today but was shitty tonight hope its not a sign for the night. The docs in the hospital don't know what kind of chest infection dp's mum has but they are being brilliant. I also have a young del boy in the making ds sold his wrestling figures and belts ffor £70 so he is buying new converse.

X posted like a fricker

Well done J with the swimming woods

cakes is tonight not chu's anniversary night out?

Very quick post. Thanks for the receipe cake. Will let you know when i make it! And chul is away at her parents and with dh tonight as far as i remember.
Back tomorrow. Night y'all

albrecht its ok, I dont think anyone has asked me! Its 2 tier white sponge cake and shes doing edible flowers all down the side of both tiers. Shes dropping it round tomorrow so Ill finally get to see it after planning it for 2 months!

Dylan has just pood on the carpet and was sitting there wiggling his fingers in it (I was giving him some nappy free time) operation clean-up was fun..

Im going swimming with friends today, then I need to sort out DPs father's day present (putting a photo of him and D in a nice 'daddy' frame) hes getting it on Sat morning because I didnt want to take it all to Spain when we've got limited space in our suitcases. All the toiletries for all 3 of us alone take up most of the room

mlic i can see there's a lot of necessary no-ing there. you must never get a chance to sit down and relax with noisy around.

i don't think our house must have as many baby-attractants as yours, no dogs for a start and the cat is pretty adept as making himself scarce before things head towards no!

dh the cake sounds beautiful - pic please!

One thing my mum told me, which makes sense, is that children don't always hear the 'don't do' part of a sentence, so they might just hear "pull the dog's ear' or whatever. It's better to frame instructions positively, so 'stroke the dog gently', or 'glasses stay on noses' rather than 'don't pull mummy's glasses off'.

argh it's hard work having a crawling baby!

those with cats as well, can your cats get over a baby gate? we have two cat litter trays, one on the back stairs which they never use, and one at the bottom of the front stairs (we live in a maisonette) which they now have to get over the stair gate to get to. Except they can't, so they sit there mewing at me till I let them through (and back). We've only had the gate up since yesterday - are they likely to get the hang of it soon? can you get gates with cat flaps in them?

woodlands my friends cat gets though the gate and over it, our dog is only 6 months old and can get over it getting up the stairs eventhough its been raised!!!
dh not long now!!!!
trudyla well done on therapy I really hope it works, would be interested to see if it works ive been considering hypnotherapy for self esteem and also reasons like yourself, constantly thinking about horrid things like my mind doing evertime, poor DH has to clock in all the time so I know hes ok and its also gettingbad when he takes L out im clockwatching til hes home or calling to get him home!

got volunteer coming at 10, hink she is taking him for a walk so Ican do the floors in peace, then my delightful dad is coming this afternoon, sure he wont stay long once I ahow him the blood blister that is still on the back of L's head since last time he visited with the ball incident!

yes that's a good point re framing positively woodlands. i do that with F when i haven't lost the plot--

yy, Horace can go over the stair gate both ways and it's at the top of a very steep flight of stairs so quite scary/a longer jump - he prefers to have the gate opened but will jump over if we're not there. your cats are trying it on

mind you, even at this age the positive thing might be better in most situations (probably not the dangerous ones). I always repeated 'Gently' to F when he was near Horace and showed him how to stroke him nicely etc and F's always been so good with him far nicer than he is to -A actually.

when are you going to swap them mlic?